When I was 15 years old, the protests in Syria began – a game changer for most people. I lived in a pro-government area, but my views towards the Syrian government changed a lot. Like many high school students, I was thinking of running away and joining the fight against the government. But social revolutions can be sincere or misleading – and sadly the revolution turned out to be the latter.
At that time, I decided I wanted to get into politics, which wasn’t very common, especially as Syria had been a single party state for the . . .